With supporters arguing for humanity, petitions are circling Minneapolis calling for a medical marijuana referendum. To be honest, medicinal marijuana is largely just a ploy to eventually legalize marijuana....

The 1998 movie "The Siege" depicts three terrorist bombings in New York. What is amazing is how many of the events the movie depicts have been played out within the last two years and how quickly events...

You're likely to understand this sentence: "The St. Louis Rams beat the Minnesota Vikings 48-17 at home in a battle of division leaders on Sunday." This sentence, maybe not so much: "Arsenal and Fulham...

If you listen carefully every Thursday at 10:55 p.m., you might be able to hear us. We're in the east lounge of Comstock Hall, on the first floor, dancing fervently to loud club music. From outside the...

My Thanksgiving Day journey began Nov. 26 in the frozenness of Minneapolis. The drive does not really get interesting until south of Rochester, Minn., when I leave behind the patchwork of suburbs and small...

Shannon Fiecke's Monday column, "Steel tariffs are U.S. protectionism at its worst," misapplies basic principles of economics. Although Fiecke is correct that the tariffs imposed by the Bush administration...

If anyone wants to learn how to profit from college students, they should register for Jefferson Commons 1001. The "unique student housing environment" on Huron Boulevard is anything but satisfactory....

The six-year term of Mexico's President Vicente Fox reached its halfway point Monday. During his three years in office, Fox has struggled to achieve his most significant goal - improved relations with...

Poor Robert Zoellick. After almost a decade of hard work on the Free Trade Area of the Americas negotiations, the U.S. trade representative had no choice two weeks ago but to spin what was obviously an...

You bastards get out of my house!" "I'm going to kill you." I'd hear him through the floorboards of my St. Paul apartment. We moved in Sept. 1. For me and my two roommates, it was our first time living...